Every new study of GlaxoSmithKline’s type 2 diabetes drug Avandia shows the medication to less and less safe. My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon catalogs recent findings regarding Avandia’s risks for causing fatal heart attacks, liver damage and fractures in her latest post to the Virginia Beach Injuryboard. She concludes that the drug, known generically as…
Yaz and Yasmin, the two most popular birth control pills in the United States, are not perfect prescription drugs. In fact, the side effects they inflict on young women can be horrendous, even life threatening. It seems that the numerous warnings and side efffect list is getting longer and longer. Women who take Yaz and…
It can be a short walk from “misleading and unsupported claim” to “dangerous” when it comes to dietary supplements. At best, a falsely advertised product will do nothing. At worst, users can get seriously injured or die. Federal regulators sometimes work proactively to protect patients from unproven and potentially harmful dietary supplements by identifying and…
Four separate lawsuits were recently filed against Bayer Pharmaceuticals due to safety concerns relating to two popular birth control pills, Yaz and Yasmin, according to Law.com. Bayer recently spent $20 million in an ad campaign to correct and clarify the potential side effects associated with taking Yaz and Yasmin. They initiated the campaign after receiving…
The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine recently published a study that found that nearly one in five tuberculosis patients had received fluoroquinolones in the year before they were diagnosed with TB. Fluoroquinolones, or super-strong antibiotics, are typically given for about 10 days. It was noted that for every additional ten days a…